Credit Analysis of 'Six Feet Under' and 'Panic Room'

Six Feet Under is a popular television drama which is shown on HBO. The programme's main
theme is death and the opening credits do well to show this. At the beginning of the credits you can see a crow flying in the sky which symbolizes death you then see to dark hands which start off linked and then begin to break away this is a way of showing how people let go when they die. The next part of the credits shows a dead body in the hospital being taken to the light you then see some Lilly's which is another representative of death. At the end of the credits you see the crow again which links to the first scene and rounds up the credits. There isn't a lot of text in the openings credits but there is a lot of images and things related to death this is very effective and gives you a basic idea of what the show is about. There is a mixture of diagetic and non-diagetic text to make the credits more attractive. Some of the credits are written in standard white text but then crumble away which also emphasizes on the theme of the show. Some of the credits are unusual because they are embedded into the scene e.g when a name is written on the tag of a dead body to make it seem more realistic.




Panic Room is a thriller film directed by David Fincher.





At the beginning of the opening you see the standard Columbus Ident which then fades out to an overview of New York City . You then see Non dietetic Credits appear on the side of the city buildings. The credits are written in blocked white text to blend into the scenery behind, they are not very scary and doesn't link well to a thriller. The music is very tense and does well to fit then thriller genre.